Dr. Boko is a senior economist, and decentralization specialist, with over 18 years of experience in economic development, and socioeconomic impact assessment of international development programs. He has served as project manager and technical advisor on large-scale international projects, such as the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) project. Dr. Boko designed the fiscal decentralization policy currently being applied in Rwanda. He was also a key member of the team that designed and implemented a decentralization support program in Benin. He has conducted research in the Great Lakes region, including Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. In particular, he led a research project focused on post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa in 2007. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Boko conducted field research in Uganda studying the impact of the Uganda fiscal decentralization program on local economic development in a post-conflict situation. He has also conducted an assessment of the decentralization process in Benin, Mali, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. Dr.
Boko’s background includes policy design and implementation, conducting technical analysis of development projects, and providing technical assistance in the areas of governance, local economic development, and socio-economic impact analysis. In addition to his international consulting work, Dr. Boko is a tenured Associate Professor of economics at Wake Forest University in the USA, and has published in the areas of institutional and economic reform, decentralization, local community finance, gender and globalization.